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Philosophy by Other Means The Arts in Philosophy and Philosophy in the Arts
ISBN: PB: 9780226770802, ISBN: HB: 9780226770772, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones
Throughout his career, Robert B. Pippin has examined the relationship between philosophy and the arts. With his writings on film, literature, and visual modernism, he has shown that there are aesthetic objects that cannot be properly understood unles...
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£24,00
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Porch Meditations on the Edge of Nature
ISBN: HB: 9780226769950, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 6 line drawings
Come with us for a moment out onto the porch. Just like that, we've entered another world without leaving home. In this liminal space, an endless array of absorbing philosophical questions arises: What does it mean to be in a place? How does one plac...
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Practical Form Abstraction, Technique, and Beauty in Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics
ISBN: HB: 9780300244564, Yale University Press, January 2021
248 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 6 illus.
In this original work, Abigail Zitin proposes a new history of the development of form as a concept in and for aesthetics. Her account substitutes women and artisans for the proverbial man of taste, asserting them as central figures in the rise of ae...
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£55,00
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Pragmatism's Evolution Organism and Environment in American Philosophy
ISBN: PB: 9780226719917, ISBN: HB: 9780226719887, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 5 tables
In Pragmatism's Evolution, Trevor Pearce demonstrates that the philosophical tradition of pragmatism owes an enormous debt to specific biological debates in the late 1800s, especially those concerning the role of the environment in development and ev...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Philosopher's Economist Hume and the Rise of Capitalism
ISBN: HB: 9780226597447, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
Although David Hume's contributions to philosophy are well known, his work on economics has been largely overlooked. "A Philosopher's Economist" offers the definitive account of Hume's "worldly philosophy", and argues that economics served as a unify...
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Politics for Everybody Reading Hannah Arendt in Uncertain Times
ISBN: PB: 9780226683157, ISBN: HB: 9780226665023, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
In this age of nearly unprecedented partisan rancor, you'd be forgiven for thinking we could all do with a smaller daily dose of politics. In his provocative and sharp book, however, Ned O'Gorman argues just the opposite: "Politics for Everybody" con...
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£54,00
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Philosophy en noir
ISBN: PB: 9788024638539, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
330 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Thought necessarily reflects the times. Following the tragedy of the Holocaust, this fact became ever more clear. And it may be the reason postwar philosophical texts are so difficult to u...
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Philosophy of Nietzsche Reiner Schurmann Lecture Notes
ISBN: PB: 9783035800548, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, January 2020
160 pp., 22.2x14 cm
Nietzsche praised Kant for having "annihilated Socratism", for exhibiting all ideals as essentially unattainable, and for having exposed himself to the despair of truth – all essential traits Nietzsche claimed for his own thinking. At the same time,...
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Philosophical Hitchcock "Vertigo" and the Anxieties of Unknowingness
ISBN: PB: 9780226668246, University of Chicago Press, August 2019
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 colour plates, 36 halftones
On the surface, "The Philosophical Hitchcock: Vertigo and the Anxieties of Unknowingness", is a close reading of Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 masterpiece "Vertigo". This, however, is a book by Robert B. Pippin, one of our most penetrating and creative phi...
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Party Fun with Kant
ISBN: PB: 9780857425362, Seagull Books, October 2018
192 pp., 19x15.2 cm
Thousands upon thousands of books have been written about Immanuel Kant since his death. None, let's be clear, have been quite like what we have here. In "Party Fun with Kant", Nicolas Mahler tells the story of Kant – and his fellow serious-minded fi...
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